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Portable External HDD installation?

Asked by Gregory

I have installed Feisty on my external hard drive and it works fine booting on the PC I installed it on. I would like to be able to plug the drive into other computers and for Ubuntu to boot up despite the change in hardware. I understand that it is possible to copy the live CD on to a hard disc but I would like to be able to configure it like a standard Linux install (so I would like it to auto-configure itself but allow me to configure it to - I'm asking a lot). How much configuration can be made to a live version? Preferably can the live auto loader be re-enabled to detect hardware changes, in particular, the Xwindow system which is what has failed so far when I tried another machine?

Thanks.

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Daniel Comşa (daniel-comsa) said : 		#1

If you use "vesa" as video driver I think it will work (the installed version), although the video performance will not be that good. As for the Live CD configuration, I have no idea.

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